OBITUARY Fantasy author Terry Pratchett: an appreciation*

Sir Terry Pratchett has died. The much-loved author — one of my personal favourites — succumbed to complications from his particular form of Alzheimer’s disease. Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) Pratchett created an astonishing fantasy world, with a fascinating take on the problems of existence, and did so in an endlessly entertaining way full of the richest wordplay. His Discworld stories not only send up the fantasy genre, but they also skewer many of the trials, trib…

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